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It was an eventful week in tech news, beyond the usual quarterly-earnings hubbub. Uber, Stripe and other big-name startups inked major deals, and Google began winding down its one-time would-be Facebook killer. Here are the details:

A child-sized robot called HitchBOT saw its hitchhiking journey across the United States come to an abrupt end in the city of Philadelphia, just two weeks into its travels. The robot, with its endearing LED smiley face, rotund bucket-shaped body and blue …

Alibaba finally has its ally in India, perhaps the world’s hottest e-commerce market.

The Chinese e-commerce giant has invested in Snapdeal, an India-based e-commerce startup, as part of a $500 million round, according to multiple sources. Foxconn, the Taiwanese company best known as a manufacturer …

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Not long after the original iPhone came out, I had a friend who was close to a major …

Trevor O’Brien, who joined Twitter a year and a half ago from YouTube and oversees product for Twitter’s iOS and Android apps, is departing the company, according to multiple sources. O’Brien also oversaw Twitter’s timeline product at one point, and …

In a blog post today, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was expecting a baby girl with his wife Priscilla. Personal news is not really our forte, but since I did baby announcements for Jerry Yang and Marc Andreessen, I can hardly stop now. In his post, Zuckerberg talked about the …

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When Apple introduced the iPod, it pretty much changed my mobile music life. Before, I …

LinkedIn has gotten a lot of mileage out of the free content that famous people like Richard Branson write for the social network. Now it wants to get more: The company wants to syndicate that content for publication on other sites.

Universal Music Group Chairman and Chief Executive Lucian Grainge has renewed his contract as head of the world’s largest label through 2020. The veteran music executive, who moved the label’s headquarters to California to be at the epicenter of technology and entertainment, has been a supporter of …

Google seemed as though it had killed off Google Glass, its failed attempt to make wearable computers for the masses. But now it is working on a version specifically designed for enterprise and industrial use, which makes much more sense.[Eric Johnson and Mark Bergen | Re/code]

“What humans do is create spaces,” the gregarious 51-year-old executive says, leaning back at a table in a small room on the second floor of Linden Lab’s headquarters in San Francisco. “Some spaces are mobile, like a bus. San Francisco is a …

While most other industries have enjoyed a decades-long marriage with the Internet, in health care, we’re still in the “getting to know you” phase, working to establish a level of trust. Understandably, there are major concerns in our industry surrounding data integrity, both in and outside of the …

We’re living in an age where the underdog wins. Startups — and individuals with the mentality of startups — have the agility to shift massive industries. One need only look to Uber as an example of this. Now we’re seeing the same principle apply to the media industry, where small players are …

Facebook showed off details of its new Aquila plane on Thursday, an unmanned aircraft that will use lasers to help connect people to the Internet — it’s real, not science fiction. The plane is one of many Facebook plans to build, and it’s not the kind of drone mockup you’ve seen from companies like …

Earlier this year, Toyota spelledout what many car companies were thinking: It would rather have its own software inside its cars than software from Apple and Google. On Thursday, it took another step to box out the mobile giants.

A new Google Glass is coming, possibly by the end of this year — but it will look pretty familiar.

Re/code has learned that a version of the second edition of Google’s wearable, which was erroneously assumed dead when the search giant obfuscated about its future earlier this year, has already been …

The tech behemoth has built an actual plane — a 140-foot, solar-powered, unmanned Aquila — to serve as flying Internet hub that will provide Wi-Fi access to parts of the world where connectivity is lacking.

The search giant is testing out a new paid search listings for professional services, starting with plumbers and locksmiths in San Francisco. Earlier, if you queried for one of them, Google’s page produced a trio of sponsored links followed by organic …

Facebook delivered another quarter that beat Wall Street's expectations, but investors yawned a bit, and shares dropped about 1.3 percent -- supposedly because Facebook's expenses shot up. But it might just be because Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg played their future plans for …